Cold, will it snow?

Posted on November 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Cop27, Frost, Gardening, global warming, Heat, Heating, Life, Snow, Trees, Weather, Weather forecastLeave a comment

The skies have cleared and the rain has stopped, the temperature has fallen without the clouds holding the warmth in. In some places its due to be foggy and frosty. November had been unseasonably warm. My hanging baskets have literally hung on, with flowers and leaves surviving and the odd bee bumbling around. Now though I’ve actually put the heating on, I also had the oven on to cook yes (might as well heat the house and cook food at the same time.

A national newspaper has reported we should be having six inches of snow, but the real weather forecast is for the temperature to rise again slightly.

In amidst all of this the Ecological Cop27 meeting has just gone back on some of its resolutions to reduce global warming. Major oil and gas producers have pushed for natural gas not to be treated as a greenhouse gas! I’m not sure of the whole story as I only heard a bit on the news, but I think it’s despicable that vested interests can be allowed to harm humanities future because they want their profits.

In the meantime I will continue to plant trees and try and do my bit to reduce my carbon footprint.

November tomatoes

Posted on November 9, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Climate change, Food, Gardening, Growing, November, Plants, Tomatoes, WeatherLeave a comment

On a tomato plant at the back of the yard. Eight tomatoes in November. We have eaten four but we are waiting for the rest to ripen. But it’s NOVEMBER! How on earth have they lasted this long.

Tomorrow the weather forecast is for temperatures of 19°C. That’s about 8°C above normal. The COP 27 Climate change conference just discussed trying to keep temperatures from going above 1.5°C higher than before the industrial revolution. Only a small rise, but enough to cause damage and disaster. So what? Flooding in costal cities across the world, dangerous increases in the ferocity of hurricanes, tornados and typhoons. Melting icecaps and glaciers. We must all try and do something about it.

Passion flower

Posted on October 31, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Britain, Centigrade, Garden Centre, Gardening, Life, Passion flower, Plant, Warm, Weather2 Comments

Yesterday in a garden centre, at the end of October we found this passion flower still in bloom. Its amazing how warm it has been over the last few weeks in Britain. Lasr week it was about 23° Centigrade in London and 19°s where we live. About 5 or 7° higher than usual. In some ways that’s good because we haven’t needed to put the heating on much. But it is unnatural. Apparently every month this year has been hotter than previous ones. Animals are not getting ready to hibernate, will they have enough food or energy to survive if the winter gets very cold. Who knows, it’s worrying.

Nasturtiums

Posted on October 22, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, autumn colour, Colours, Fall, Favourite, Flowers, Gardening, Growing, Leaves, Nasturtiums, PlantsLeave a comment

Nasturtiums sprawling in the back yard. They are in our front hedge too. There are flowers six foot up in the air. You can tell its nasturtiums because of the shape of their leaves, sort of like umbrellas. The leaves, as you can see, are sometimes variegated. The colours vary from pale cream to deep red. I’ve never seen a blue or purple one? Maybe they will do some genetic modification to change that? At the end of summer they are something cheerful to look at.

Low sun

Posted on October 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Decay, Garden spider, Gardening, Life, Low sun, Poem, Poetry, Sunlight, WeatherLeave a comment

When the sun slides down the sky

And the birds start to fly

South to the warmth

Of far off climbes

We see the light shine

Low in the sky

Piercing the leaves

As they yellow and fade.

Fruits are ripening

Apples wind falling

Garden spiders shimmering

In sunlight and cold rain.

Vegetation

Posted on October 19, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged autumn garden, Back yard, Begonias, Flowers, Fushias, Gardening, Life, Lobelia, Nasturtiums, Plants, vegetationLeave a comment

The back yard looks very green now. The flowers are going and there is some wilting, but temperatures have stayed reasonable so there isn’t any frost damage yet. I suppose we will have to compost the plants if it gets really cold, but I’m one of those gardeners that keeps going as long as possible. Successes are the fushias which have woody stems, also the begonia that is in the shelter of the wall. A few lobelia remain and the nasturtiums hubby planted into the old brick wall are trailing everywhere!

Finished Poppy Meditation

Posted on October 18, 2022October 18, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Colour, Fine Art, Finished, Flowers, Gardening, Life, Painting, Poppies, poppy meditation, Tired4 Comments

Hard work, but I think it was worth it. I think some of my paintings are like knitting or embroidery, pulling all the threads together to bring it to a finished piece. And sometimes it’s knowing where to stop, to feel satisfied. Sometimes my hubby says I overwork things, but I think I know where I am with this. I decided not to add any bees or butterflies, I think that would just distract.

Flowers?

Posted on October 14, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Flowers, Gardening, meadow, Painting, Work in progress2 Comments

I’ve started working on a painting of flowers in a meadow. I am not including the sky, I just want to concentrate on the flowers. I’m afraid I don’t know the names of all of them. I want the image to look realistic and hopefully beautiful. It’s about two feet by one and a half. It will be acrylic on canvas.

Pear time

Posted on September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged annual crop, Crop, Food, Garden, Gardening, Life, Pears, Plant, sapling, Tasty, Tree, WoolworthsLeave a comment

Pears off our tree and oranges from the supermarket. This shows just how big our pears have grown this year. They needed picking as they won’t ripen on the tree. The tree was a small sapling from a woolworths store in Stoke twenty years ago or so, before the stores went bust. It’s now a tree about fifteen foot high and spreading branches about twenty or twenty five foot across. It grew leaning over because of the weight of the pears. I have to say they are very tasty when they are ripe. I think they are a conference style of pear. We have had around fifty or sixty pears but most of them are too high to reach, the ones in the bowl were low hanging.

Yard time

Posted on September 27, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, Flowers, Frost, Gardening, oranges greens, Plants, Reds, washing line, YardLeave a comment

Still a sea of flowers. The weather forecast says temperatures of 5°C tonight but I hope that the enclosed yard will protect the plants. I will see in the morning…..

The red flowers seem to be the main things that are still flowering. The yellow line at the top is our washing line, but it’s hard to dry clothes on it in the summer.

Mallaband-Brown

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